I'll eep this brief. On sunday I was out in the sun without sunscreen. Sunday evening I was bright pink. Yesterday I hurt.Last night I started suffering from unbearablle itching. Today this continued. I went to the pharmacist and boughtmany bottles of stuff including spray on tea/aloe vera stuff, spray on antiseptic/anaesthetic stuff and a few ( Read more... )

So I am now in Australia, Sydney to be precise. I could be more precise I guess but I don't think its important ( Read more... )

The two key points of this post are in the subject really. I'm now in Cambodia (Phnom Penh) in a nice hotel after a brief delay at the border when our bus apparently broke and we had to wait for a replacement. Got here fine in the end though and a nice tuk tuk ride got us straight to the hotel ( Read more... )

Things are still going on here... I'm in Saigon/Ho Chi Min city right now having flown in from hoi an yesterday. I'm finding it hard to find time right now to update. Travelling with company means I no longer have lots of spare hours or minutes to keep you all uptodate since I just get to be more sociable now. At this rate I think you are still ( Read more... )

So think back to the 25th July... What were you doing? That's a rhetorical question, unless it was more interesting than a trip to Wuhou Ci and a very spicy hotpot then I'm not that interested. :)

( Wuhou Ci, the hotpot as well as a day of nothing and a really big buddha )

I'm now in vietnam having flown here yesterday. Very nice hotel rrom which is cool. Unfortunately the weather is swapping between very sunny and far too hot and heavy heavy rain. Rain being the current problem for whie we are going for a walk ( Read more... )

So this has been a long time coming... With company it s a lot harder to find the time to write up lots of stuff... But here's a writeup that was started over a week ago and concerns some of Chengdu, in particular pandas, a monastery, Sichuan opera and a drinking session...

( A good day in Chengdu... )

We had a typhoon warning here last night. Up to the lock yourself in your house and don't come out til the all clear is given... it was all clear this morning though so a bit of an anticlimax. It is unfortunately now heading towards vietnam ( Read more... )

Just another quick post here since I don't have huge amounts of time to write details. I do still want to write up chengdu properly but need to find spare time to do so...

( A summary of the end of Chengdu and a bit of Shanghai )

So today I woke up feeling rough. I woke up several times in the night feeling like that too. I'm not sure if it was something I ate last night (a bunch of us went for a hot pot) or what it is but I've not left the hostel today and have felt very sorry for myself. The quick summary of the last few days is that I've loved my time in Chengdu.

( Chengdu in summary... )